Lug-strap holder.



P. D. PADGETT.

LUG STRAP HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED NOV.16, 1912.

1,084,473. Patented Jan. 13,1914

62W P. D. Padgett POWELL DEAN PADG-ETT, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

LUG-STRAP HOLDER.

Application filed November 16, 1912.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 13, 1914.

Serial No. 731,792.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, POWELL D. PADGETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Atlanta, in the county of Fulton and State of Georgia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Lug-Strap Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates generallyto an improvement in looms and particularly to a lug strap holder which may be readily applied to the picker stick and is so constructed as to avoid breakage of these parts incident to the usual construction.

The main object of the present invention is the provision of a lug strap holder including a clamp member and a loop member, the former being designed to be readily and conveniently secured about the picker stick with the loop member in proper position to receive the lug strap, the entire device being constructed of metal to avoid breakage.

The invention in its preferred form of details will be described in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which the figure represents a perspective view illustrating my invention in applied position.

Referring particularly to the drawing, the improved lug strap holder includes a clamp member 1 and a loop member 2. The clamp member is preferably constructed of a single length of material formed in approximately rectangular outline including side walls 3, an outer wall 4: and an inner wall 5. The outer wall is formed with an outstanding pivot lug (3 preferably constructed by an up ward bending of the outer wall to provide a lug of double thickness projecting at right angles to the outer wall, centrally thereof, and having a height equal to the height of the wall. The inner wall 5 which is preferably formed of the strip forming the clamp is divided, the ends of the material strip being projected outwardly beyond the sections of the end wall to form clamp lips 7. Each of the lips is formed with an opening to re ceive the threaded bolt 8 whereby the lips maybe drawn together to clamp the side walls 3 on the picker stick. The side walls are preferably formed with inwardly projecting supports 9 which in the setting of the clamp are forced in the material of the picker stick to prevent accidental displacement of the clamp.

The loop member 2 comprises a single length of metal strip, preferably spring steel. The strip is bent intoelongated loop form with its terminals 10 twisted and arranged on opposite sides of the lug 6, to which they are secured. It will be understood that the loop will thus depend from the clamp with the plane of the loop approximately in line with the plane of the picker stick movement, the resiliency of the clamp permitting the necessary give to the loop.

The application of the improved holder will be obvious from the drawings, the clamp being secured in appropriate position on the picker stick so that the loop will depend in position to receive the lug strap. The entire device may be secured to the picker stick without removing the same from the loom structure, is conveniently secured through the medium of a single fastening only and by the construction and arrangement of parts secures effective operation without liability to that breakage incident to the ordinary construction of support and leather loop.

l/Vhat is claimed is A lug strap holder including a clamp designed to embrace a picker stic one wall of the clamp being divided and formed with lips, means connecting the lips to draw them together to secure the clamp in position, the wall of the clamp opposite the divided Wall being formed with an integral centrally arranged projection exceeding in thickness the thickness of the wall and having a height corresponding to the similar dimension of the wall and a loop of inherent resilient metal pivotally connected to and depending from the projection.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

POWELL DEAN PADGETT.

Vitnesses J. T. GAULT, W. W. BoUnNE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the commissioner of Iatentl, Washington, D. O. 

